Mission Trip to El Salvador

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Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity is a partnership between Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Habitat for Humanity International. This blog is a record of the 2010 Thrivent Builds Worldwide Financial Representative Ambassador Program (FRAP) trip to build homes in the Thrivent Builds El Salvador Community--called Villa Esperanza, or Hope Village. By mid-2010, this new community will be complete with up to 75 new houses for Salvadoran families--financed by $1.3 million from Thrivent Financial and built by over 50 teams of Thrivent members, Lutherans and other volunteers working with Habitat El Salvador. This community will change the lives of the new homeowner families, and this experience will also alter our lives as volunteers! This team is being lead by Kevin Alford and Mike Feiler and includes over 30 Thrivent Financial representatives and employees, specially selected to become ambassadors for this program.

The blog is being updated by Ottis Smith, Financial Representative for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

For more information how you can be a part of a Thrivent Builds trip in the future, please contact Cross of Christ member Ottis Smith.

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Ottis Smith's Travel Journal